https://blog.tradle.io/Ghost 0.9Tue, 30 Oct 2018 22:13:31 GMT60Following the Celent Model Wealth Manager award for the Digital Wealth Passport UBS have won a second prestigious award with Professional Wealth Management in their Wealth Tech awards.

Thank you to the organisers of FCV and their partners at the commercial banks BIDV, Shinhan Bank, TPBank, VIB, Vietcombank, VietinBank, and VPBank, as well as Vietnam Silicon Valley and our mentors at VIISA.

In seeking to meet the increasingly complex needs of multi-jurisdiction clients along with complex and costly compliance requirements, UBS sought out a solution that streamlined repetitive, manual and client unfriendly processes with faster on-boarding, complete compliance, superior security and client experiences.

UBS chose Tradle as their platform was already a proven blockchain solution in banking and one which provides portability and GDPR compliance.

Together with Tradle, UBS embarked on a detailed pilot testing all aspects of their KYC needs and found the ideal solution in a jointly developed Digital Wealth Management Passport based on Tradle’s KYC On Blockchain solution. The pilot gave UBS a fully functioning product for clients, intermediaries and relationship managers on web and mobile.

]]>Our partnership with Finastra is an exciting step for us all. FusionFabric.cloud is a leading platform in financial services so it makes perfect sense to plug our award winning KYC on Blockchain solution into the network.
Finastra serves more than 9000 financial institutions around the world and our goal]]>https://blog.tradle.io/2018/05/23/tradle-partners-with-finastra/36641970-baff-4bf9-b905-1c3adea04fcdWed, 23 May 2018 09:20:48 GMT

Our partnership with Finastra is an exciting step for us all. FusionFabric.cloud is a leading platform in financial services so it makes perfect sense to plug our award winning KYC on Blockchain solution into the network.
Finastra serves more than 9000 financial institutions around the world and our goal is to provide their customers with our class leading KYC solution.
Tradle's KYC solution draws on the full benefits of the cloud while giving the institution full control of the data in a Private SaaS model; we call it MyCloud.

]]>With so much happening at Tradle in the fin/reg/insur/legal/etc tech space here's general update on how we're focussing on some global challenges.

]]>Pleased to announce we have signed an MOU with Perpetual Guardian to use Tradle's KYC solution for their wills and trust customer onboarding.
We are the first business in New Zealand to start tackling the upcoming issue requirement in 2018 of the AML/CFT Act using blockchain technology ]]>https://blog.tradle.io/2017/10/19/tradle-signs-perpetual-guardian/e03d1163-c66a-4126-8db3-bc2406b09b69Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:40:00 GMT

Pleased to announce we have signed an MOU with Perpetual Guardian to use Tradle's KYC solution for their wills and trust customer onboarding.
We are the first business in New Zealand to start tackling the upcoming issue requirement in 2018 of the AML/CFT Act using blockchain technology

]]>Super excited and chuffed that we won the European award for best Blockchain Fintech!

Well that was fun!

We were selected into the fintech 100 for Europe, then into the top 3 for blockchain based on innovation, delivery and traction amongst other measures.

We're delighted to announce that Tradle won the Japanese FIN/SUM award as the most outstanding fintech for 2017!

See the live presentation by Gene

The Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Nikkei) and the Financial Services Agency, Fintech Association ran a competition for fintechs in Tokyo. Following a selection process it was a week of workshops and presentations where the final 30 fintechs prepared their final pitches.

This is great recognition for the work we're doing with regulators, banks, insurers and other fintechs in the digital KYC and blockchain space.

]]>Tradle are down under this week with the UK’s Department for International Trade. We're presenting to the Australian and New Zealand governments, leading financial institutions, regulators and investors alongside other great startups Aire, Clarus FT, Clearmacro, FundApps, ingage, iwoca, neyber, ObjectTech, Onfido and Sybenetix.

Tradle are down under this week with the UK’s Department for International Trade. We're presenting to the Australian and New Zealand governments, leading financial institutions, regulators and investors alongside other great startups Aire, Clarus FT, Clearmacro, FundApps, ingage, iwoca, neyber, ObjectTech, Onfido and Sybenetix.

It's a packed agenda for 5 full days in Sydney, Melbourne and Auckland.

We'll be showing delegates our full platform capabilities and the vision for cross border identity.

]]>Digital Identity as a Platform

We will help you create awesome apps at the hackathon!
We have built a digital identity platform on blockchain and have support from many regulators for it.
We can also offer you ideas for the apps to build and we guarantee that you will be

We will help you create awesome apps at the hackathon!
We have built a digital identity platform on blockchain and have support from many regulators for it.
We can also offer you ideas for the apps to build and we guarantee that you will be able to build and present them at the hackathon.

There are thousands of applications that can be built on the solid digital identity foundation, the foundation that protects our privacy to the highest degree, yet is acceptable by the governments of the world, who are often paranoid about terrorism and financial crime.

We are now ready to offer this as a platform for all developers, individuals, startups, and those that work in the enterprise, and for the government.

Making blockchain apps is not easy. Making them look good and operate on all platforms, from mobiles to the servers is not easy.

Tradle’s platform is not just making it easy, it makes it in style.

Tradle is a marvel of design. It uses one language - JavaScript to run everywhere, on mobiles tablets, web and the servers. We recreated a [subset of] node.js in many environments. Tradle uses the hottest UI framework on earth - React Native. It is open source, and has been from the start. And it is blockchain agnostic. The bitcoin blockchain is still our favourite, but others, like Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, have brought new designs and ideas into the red hot distributed ledgers field. You want to be future proof? You want your efforts to matter? Tradle then is the place to bet on!

Tradle Master Classes

We are holding a couple of master classes to get you up to speed tomorrow
When - Thursday 13:00-14:00 & 18:00-20:00
Where - The Big Building (Stichting) - Achterweg 1 , 9725 BM Groningen (room to be confirmed)

Tradle has been working for 3 years on the most exciting project in the world, digital identity on blockchain.

Identity on blockchain, or Know Your Customer (KYC), as it is known in the financial world, is now considered the killer application of the blockchain. It was not so 3 years ago when Tradle started. We evangelized and educated the market, presenting at 2-3 conferences a month, meeting with 40 biggest financial institutions in the world, exciting many of the world's governments.

We persuaded several of the biggest financial institutions to try our approach, and are talking to several most innovative governments to allow us to introduce verifiable identity in their jurisdictions.

It is a well known fact that Estonia, once a poor tiny post-soviet country, achieved something no other country has done, a deep penetration of digital services across the whole society. No one is signing contracts on paper there anymore, they vote, they make laws, they secure health records, they form companies and do hundreds of other things purely digitally.

Yet Estonia could not find a way to help other countries achieve the same, despite making it their key political agenda. Tradle did a 6 months R&D on e-Estonia and has discovered the reason for that. As a result we delivered a prototype for the next generation self-sovereign mobile-first digital identity for Estonia, and got a Letter of Intent from them to work with us to help other countries repeat their success.

We are now ready to offer this as a platform for all developers, individuals, startups, and those that work in the enterprise, and for the government.

There are thousands of applications that can be built on the solid digital identity foundation, the foundation that protects our privacy to the highest degree, yet is acceptable by the governments of the world, who are often paranoid about terrorism and financial crime.

Making blockchain apps is not easy. Making them look good and operate on all platforms, from mobiles to the servers is not easy.

Tradle’s platform is not just making it easy, it makes it in style.

And it is a marvel of design. It uses one language - JavaScript to run everywhere, on mobiles tablets, web and the servers. We recreated a [subset of] node.js in many environments. Tradle uses the hottest UI framework on earth - React Native. It is open source, and has been from the start. And it is blockchain agnostic. The bitcoin blockchain is still our favorite, but others, like Ethereum, Hyperledger, Corda, have brought new designs and ideas into the red hot distributed ledgers field. You want to be future proof? You want your efforts to matter? Tradle then is the place to bet on!

It is time to launch your dream app. Such opportunity, such a technology shift happens only once in a generation. Are you the next Zuck, the one who catches fortuna by the 3 hairs it has left on its bald head (hey - many have grabbed it already and this is all that is left for us late bloomers), or will you let your chance pass you by?

It is for you to decide.

Tradle,
platform
for
the
daring

You will need to shed your old conceptions,
you may need to endure some rough patches,
but you will succeed fast,
Why?

Because we have done a lot of heavy lifting for you.
We have gathered a lot of app ideas, which you are welcome to use.
And we are building a distribution network for your apps.

]]>We're very proud to announce we made it into the FCA's sandbox!

Tradle will be participating in a test that we are undertaking as part of the FCA’s Regulatory Sandbox. The regulatory sandbox allows firms to test innovative offerings in a live environment. More information on the FCA’s

Tradle will be participating in a test that we are undertaking as part of the FCA’s Regulatory Sandbox. The regulatory sandbox allows firms to test innovative offerings in a live environment. More information on the FCA’s regulatory sandbox can be found here.

20 companies have been selected from 69 applicants and we are the only digital identity and KYC business that got in.

We are very pleased to be working with Aviva on an identity pilot in the sandbox where we will onboard live customers.

Onboarding KYC is very painful for all financially regulated businesses as well as their clients. We aim to speed the process up and reduce the friction caused currently.

We're looking forward to sanding toes and lots of creativity.

Contact us today to learn more about Tradle and our vision for digital identity info@tradle.io

]]>Blockchain news is everywhere, but it's difficult to get an understanding of what's really happening. Finextra does a great job of serving a balance of news and research and their report From Hype To Reality is the perfect read to bring you up to date.

Blockchain news is everywhere, but it's difficult to get an understanding of what's really happening. Finextra does a great job of serving a balance of news and research and their report From Hype To Reality is the perfect read to bring you up to date.

Ok, disclaimer coming... Gene our CEO features in the research.

]]>The project I'm currently working on is getting the Tradle app working in the browser. As you may already know, we use React Native + magic spells to achieve a Node.js-like environment on iOS and Android. This way the overwhelming majority of our codebase can be reused on all platforms.]]>https://blog.tradle.io/2016/08/28/tradle-in-the-browser/4b52f672-495c-4311-a9f7-97e84e823c0aSun, 28 Aug 2016 00:55:00 GMT

The project I'm currently working on is getting the Tradle app working in the browser. As you may already know, we use React Native + magic spells to achieve a Node.js-like environment on iOS and Android. This way the overwhelming majority of our codebase can be reused on all platforms.

If you read "overwhelming majority" carefully, you probably thought to yourself: "Ha! So there is some platform-specific code. I bet that's where the engineers get their gray hair." You got me.

Capabilities and APIs differ from environment to environment. Here are some questions we ask ourselves whenever we consider adapting the Tradle app for a new environment:

Where do we store data, and how safe is it there, e.g. can other users/apps access it, can it get wiped by a mis-flick of the wrist?

What cryptography is available? E.g. is there a secure RNG? Will signing/encryption be performant enough or will the app be running at 3 fps?

Camera support

Can we take photos of documents here / scan QR codes? If not, can we upload files?

Feasibility

How much work will it take to prep the environment? For example, the React Native universe of both core and userland components is much richer on iOS than Android, but Android is catching up quickly.

...plenty more

The end-result in a perfect world is an as-clean-as-possible separation of environment-specific adaptations from the app itself, a VM so-to-speak for the Tradle app to run in. Then application code doesn't need three toppings of environment checks. Most of the time, the app shouldn't know whether it's running on an iWatch or on neural interface that projects pixels straight into the mind of a dog.

The browser is not the most secure environment in the world. You can inadvertently wipe out storage, your curious spouse, her private investigator, and your favorite daughter (you know which one's your favorite) often have access to it, you install all kinds of browser extensions and blithely click "Yes" under "I understand that I'm allowing this extension to fill my life with regrets." At the same time, its convenience is unmatched. App updates can happen almost invisibly, you're not limited to your thumbs when filling out forms, there's room for more than a button and that ketchup stain on the screen, and the CPU has more horsepower.

So Tradle in the browser is an experiment. After a week of breathing life into it, the latest checkpoint is end-to-end messaging with a Tradle server, with most of the UI working. But there is still plenty of work to do.

Todo:

react-native-accordion (fixed today)

vector icons (fixed today)

react-native-gifted-messenger - fix scroll handler

back button / forward button sometimes don't work (need to figure out what generates bad history)

chat messages that should show up, don't after back/forward (not related to browser history)

password view on login/registration - gesture password is good for touch screens but not a mouse